Collaborate Disseminate
The following press release gives no indication as to how many patients were impacted, or what the employee’s motivation might have been. Was this just a curiosity/snooping situation, or was there some other motive? ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4, 2020 /PRN… Continue reading Mercy Health discloses an insider breach, fires the employee
Joe Davies reports: A school IT teacher was jailed for six years today after hacking his pupils’ phones to steal naked selfies of teenage girls and storing them on his computer. High school technology expert Richard Edmunds, 40, told pupils he co… Continue reading UK: School IT teacher, 40, is jailed for six years after he hacked into his pupils’ mobile phones to steal naked selfies from teenage girls and store them on his computer
Cortana, the digital assistant on Windows, has received many updates in the past akin to the main…
For more visit TheWindowsClub.com. Continue reading Windows 10 adds new skill to Cortana Cortana to open locally stored files
River City Bank had some explaining to do to customers. As described in their notification, a copy of which was submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, the bank discovered a problem on September 29. An employee downloaded customer… Continue reading River City Bank notifies customers after discovering insider wrongdoing
An Indian national was sentenced on November 30, 2020 to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Texas for his role in operating and funding India-based call centers that defrauded U.S. victims out o… Continue reading Owner and Operator of India-Based Call Centers Sentenced To Prison for Scamming U.S. Victims Out Of Millions of Dollars
Following the trend of adding more and more features through updates, Microsoft has now released…
For more visit TheWindowsClub.com. Continue reading Windows Feature Experience Pack to let you paste images directly into a folder
November 25 – Shawn N. Anderson, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Linda Jean Pangelinan Palacios, age 48, from Dededo, Guam, was sentenced in the United States District Co… Continue reading Speaking of CFAA cases involving employees: Linda Jean Pangelinan Palacios Sentenced for Unauthorized Access of a Protected Computer in Furtherance of Fraud
Admire Moyo reports that Absa, one of the country’s largest banks, has disclosed a data breach that resulted in customer data being shared with external parties> In a statement to ITWeb, the bank says: “Absa advises that an employee has unlaw… Continue reading ZA: Absa accuses employee of leaking customer data
Attempts to hold an entity liable for the wrongdoing of an employee has produced mixed results in the courts. Here’s a case in Indiana like that, below. As seen on The Indiana Lawyer: Justices last week granted transfer in the case of Community … Continue reading Indiana justices agree to hear hospital records suit stemming from insider snooping case
Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Healthcare data breaches are on the rise-recent estimates peg the number of patient records breached in 2019 as exceeding 41 million individuals. Additionally, approximately 60% of all healthcare data br… Continue reading Bad Medicine: Hospital Hit With Multiple Data Breach Class Actions for Unauthorized Access of Patient Records